COPEC Rally Chile a Name and Is Situated in the Biobío Region WRC Round Was Presented in 2016
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2019 Michelin COPEC Rally2019 Chile THURSDAY, MAY 9 MAY 9»12 11:00am Shakedown 6.45km BASED IN CONCEPCIÓN FRIDAY, MAY 10 (125.27KM) - 6:30am Exit service park, Talcahuano 1st EDITION 8:00am SS1 El Pinar 17.11km Organised by RallyMobil 9:33am SS2 El Puma 1 30.72km - 10:36am SS3 Espigado 1 22.26km ROUND 6, 2019 FIA WORLD RALLY 12:51pm Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 40 minutes CHAMPIONSHIP 3:24pm SS4 El Puma 2 30.72km 4:27pm SS5 Espigado 2 22.26km timetable 6:40pm SS6 Conception-Bicentenario 2.20km 7:15pm Service, Talcahuano 45 minutes SATURDAY, MAY 11 (121.16KM) 63 6:30am Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 15 minutes entries 8:08am SS7 Rio Lia 1 20.90km 9:08am SS8 Maria Las Cruces 1 23.09km TOTAL DISTANCE: 10:20am SS9 Pelun 1 16.59km 12:05pm Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 40 minutes 1,245.68 km 2:08pm SS10 Rio Lia 2 20.90km including 304.81km 3:08pm SS11 Maria Las Cruces 2 23.09km divided into 16 special stages 4:20pm SS12 Pelun 2 16.59km 5:45pm Service/Tyre change 45 minutes SUNDAY, MAY 12 (58.38KM) 7:00am Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 15 minutes 8:08am SS13 Bio Bio 1 12.52km 9:30am SS14 Lircay 18.06km 10:20am SS15 San Nicolas 15.28km 12:18pm SS16 Bio Bio 2 Power Stage 12.52km SOURCE: WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO 1:15pm Finish Podium ceremony, Plaza de la 4:00pm Independencia, Concepción LOCAL TIME - THIS IS OBVIOUSLY Arnaud Rémy UNCHARTERED TERRITORY WRC Programme Manager, FOR EVERYBODY Michelin Motorsport “As a new event, this is obviously unchartered territory for everybody. Some of the stages are held on forest tracks that have tree trunks and stones on the insides of many corners. They can also be very fast and bumpy in places. We don’t have much precise data about how our tyres are likely to perform here but we have placed the emphasis on safety by nominating the medium- and hard-compound versions of the LTX Force, which are more versatile. We are especially keen to see how ‘El Puma’ goes. It’s more than 30km in length and looks similar to a Rally GB stage. There could be a lot of ‘road-sweeping’ if the weather is dry but wear-rates aren’t expected to be very high.” MICHELIN’S TYRES FOR THE 2019 RALLY CHILE Michelin Michelin Latitude LTX Force Cross S80 (soft) and Michelin Latitude 3 Drivers can use up H4 M6 Cross H90 (hard) (hard) (medium) to 28 tyres from WRC an allocation of 28 WRC2 3 Drivers can use up to 26 tyres LTX Force M6s and from an allocation of 26 S80s 16 LTX Force H4s and 16 H90s Itinerary Practically all the stages take place on privately-owned ground The compact route visits three Chilean provinces: Concepción, Biobío and Arauco The majority of the stages take place between the Pacific coast and the Biobío River The service park is hosted by the Casino Marina del Sol The stages ‘El Puma’ (SS2/4) is the longest stage of the rally (30.72km) and is described as Chile’s ‘Ouninpohja’! A super-special (SS6) will be held in the Parque Bicentenario de Concepción The stages take place in forests and tend to be wide and smooth, with cambered corners RALLY CHILE TRIVIA Chile is the 32nd country to be visited by the World Rally Championship since 1973 Santiago hosted a round of the FIA Formula E Championship in 2018 and 2019 The Dakar Rally has included competitive action in Chile several times, notably in the Atacama Desert, in the north. The 2013 event finished in Santiago Chile’s best known driver Eliseo Salazar (24 F1 grands prix, Le Mans, Indy 500, etc.) contested the 2012 Rally Argentina in a Michelin-equipped Mini CONCEPCION RALLY CHILE AND CHILE Santiago was a venue for the start of the 1980 Chile is 4,300km ‘long’ from north to south, but only Codasur Rally’s Concentration Run 180km ‘wide’ on average Chilean territory is spread over three different continents: The RallyMobil Chilean Rally Championship has America, Oceania and Antarctica been running for 19 years Concepción is the capital of the province of the same The project of making the COPEC Rally Chile a name and is situated in the Biobío region WRC round was presented in 2016 The 2018 COPEC Rally Chile was observed by the FIA before its inclusion in the WRC calendar for a period of three years Concepción (population: more than 1 million) is Chile’s second-biggest city, after Santiago Talcahuano (population: 150,000) is situated 12km north of Concepción. It is Chile’s biggest fishing port and biggest military base Talcahuano was rocked by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in 2010 CITROEN-TOTAL WRT Citroën C3 WRC M-SPORT FORD WRT Ford Fiesta RS WRC #1 Sébastien Ogier (FRA) #3 Teemu Suninen (FIN) Race starts 141 - Wins 46 - Podiums 75 Race starts 45 - Wins 0 - Podiums 1 Julien Ingrassia (FRA) Marko Salminen (FIN) Race starts 141 - Wins 46 - Podiums 75 Race starts 29 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 6 Champions 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 #33 Elfyn Evans (GBR) Race starts 81 - Wins 1 - Podiums 9 #4 Esapekka Lappi (FIN) Race starts 47 - Victoire 1 - Podiums 5 Scott Martin (GBR) Janne Ferm (FIN) Race starts 125 - Wins 0 - Podiums 4 Race starts 47 - Victoire 1 - Podiums 5 #37 Lorenzo Bertelli (ITA) Race starts 59 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WRT Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC Simone Scattolin (ITA) #11 Thierry Neuville (BEL) Race starts 77 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 Race starts 102 - Wins 11 - Podiums 37 Nicolas Gilsoul (BEL) Race starts 98 - Wins 11 - Podiums 37 #89 Andreas Mikkelsen (NOR) Race starts 104 - Wins 3 - Podiums 23 Entry List Anders Jaeger (NOR) Race starts 48 - Wins 2 - Podiums 9 #19 Sébastien Loeb (FRA) Race starts 175 - Wins 79 - Podiums 117 Daniel Elena (MCO) Race starts 175 - Wins 79 - Podiums 117 9 Champions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT Toyota Yaris WRC #5 Kris Meeke (GBR) Race starts 96 - Wins 5 - Podiums 12 Sebastian Marshall (GBR) Race starts 52 - Wins 0 - Podiums 4 #8 Ott Tänak (EST) Race starts 97 - Wins 7 - Podiums 20 Martin Järveoja (EST) Race starts 68 - Wins 7 - Podiums 16 #10 Jari-Matti Latvala (FIN) Race starts 200 - Wins 18 - Podiums 65 Miikka Anttila (FIN) Race starts 211 - Wins 18 - Podiums 65 COMPLETE ENTRY LIST HERE wrC DRIVERS’ STANDINGS Monte-Carlo Sweden Mexico France Argentina Chile Portugal Italy Finland Germany Turkey Great Britain Spain Australia TOTAL 24/01 > 27/01 14/02 > 17/02 7/03 > 10/03 28/03 > 31/03 25/04 > 28/04 9/05 > 12/05 30/05 > 02/06 7/06 > 10/06 26/07 > 29/07 16/08 > 19/08 13/09 > 16/09 4/10 > 7/10 25/10 > 28/10 15/11 > 18/11 1 18 + 3 15 + 4 12 + 3 25 + 2 25 + 3 Thierry NEUVILLE (2) (3) (4) (1) (1) 110 2 25 + 4 0 + 2 25 + 5 18 + 1 15 + 5 Sébastien OGIER (1) (11) (1) (2) (3) 100 3 15 + 2 25 + 5 18 8 + 4 4 + 1 Ott TÄNAK (3) (1) (2) (6) (8) 82 4 8 + 5 8 10 + 4 2 + 5 12 Kris MEEKE (6) (6) (5) (9) (4) 54 5 0 10 + 3 15 15 0 Elfyn EVANS (R) (5) (3) (3) (R) 43 6 0 12 0 - 18 Andreas MIKKELSEN (R) (4) (R) (-) (2) 30 7 10 0 4 1 10 + 4 Jari-Matti LATVALA (5) (21) (8) (10) (5) 29 8 0 18 + 1 0 + 1 6 0 Esapekka LAPPI (R) (2) (13) (7) (R) 26 9 - - 2 + 2 12 8 + 2 Dani SORDO (-) (-) (9) (4) (6) 26 10 12 6 - 4 - Sébastien LOEB (4) (7) (-) (8) (-) 22 11 0 + 1 0 0 10 + 3 6 Teemu SUNINEN (11) (23) (R) (5) (7) 20 12 - - 8 - - Benito GUERRA (-) (-) (6) (-) (-) 8 Manufacturers wrC2 pro drivers wrC2 drivers 1 Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 157 pts 1 Lukasz PIENIAZEK 62 pts 1 Benito GUERRA 43 pts 2 Gus GREENSMITH 58 pts 2 Ole Christian VEIBY 40 pts 2 Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 120 pts 3 Mads OSTBERG 50 pts 3 Nicolas GRYAZIN 28 pts 3 Citroën Total WRT 117 pts 4 Kalle ROVANPERÄ 36 pts 4 Alberto HELLER 27 pts 4 M-Sport Ford World Rally Team 78 pts 5 Eerik PIETARINEN 0 pts 5 Yoann BONATO 25 pts THE 2019 WRC rEGULATIONS Start orders points Day 1 in 2019 Drivers’ championship order, then 1st, 25 points • 2nd, 18 points • 3rd 15 points • 4th, 12 points reverse order of overnight classification 5th, 10 points • 6th, 8 points • 7th, 6 points • 8th, 4 points 9th, 2 points • 10th, 1 point Manufacturers can nominate up to three cars Power Stage points with the two best-placed cars 1st, 5 points • 2nd, 4 points • 3rd, 3 points • 4th, 2 points to score Manufacturer points. 5th, 1 point. MICHELIN’S WRC RANGE WRC TYRE REGULATIONS 2019 season 3 The FIA has registered two different tyre manufactures for the 2019 WRC: Michelin and Pirelli 3 Car manufacturers must re- ASPHALT TYRES: WINTRY gister the tyre brand they michelin pILOT SPORT ASPHALT: have chosen with the FIA Michelin 3 Only moulded tyres are au- Pilot Alpin thorised A4 3 Tyres must be identifiable by a barcode and RFID chip 3 Re-cutting or otherwise mo- difying the tread pattern is not permitted 3 Only marked tyres are al- H5 (hard compound) S6 (soft compound) lowed to be used on stages Size: 20/65-18 Size: 20/65-18 3 Tyre pre-heating systems are Conditions: dry stages Conditions: wet, cold conditions non-studded prohibited 3 Cars may carry up to two spares 3 Tyres may only be inflated using air 3 Only one type of dry-weather asphalt tyre (construction + pattern) and two compound options are authorised for SS6 (super soft compound) FW3 (Full Wet) studded the season (a third com- Size: 20/65-18 Size: 18/65-18 pound option is allowed for Conditions: icy, frosty, damp, Conditions: showers, standing Size: 18/65-18 cold conditions water or heavy rain Conditions: ice and/or snow the Rallye Monte-Carlo) 3 Just one type of asphalt rain tyre is authorised 3 Only one type of gravel tyre (construction + tread GRAVEL TYRES: SNOW/ICE TYRE: pattern) and three com- michelin LTX FORCE michelin X-ICE pound options are autho- NORTH rised for the season (choice of two compounds per event) 3 A single type of snow/ice tyre (one compound only) to be fitted to 7x15-inch